Bees

File name: 08_06_010849

 

Title: Bees

 

Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)

 

Date created: 1936

 

Physical description: 1 negative : glass, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.

 

Summary: Boston Bees manager Bill McKechnie leads a group of his players, including Billy Urbanski (#2), in a heated exchange with the home plate umpire at Braves Field in 1936.

 

Genre: Glass negatives

 

Subjects: Boston Braves (Baseball team); Braves Field (Boston, Mass.); Baseball players; Baseball umpires; Baseball

 

Notes: Original data provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve: Red Sox, n.d.; Corrected title and date based on research by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011.; Summary provided by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011.; One-year style of Boston Bees uniform makes this 1936 only (Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011).

 

Collection: Leslie Jones Collection

 

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

 

Rights: Copyright © Leslie Jones.

 

Preferred citation: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.

 

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